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THE FUROR over cold fusion began on March 23, as chemists B. Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann shocked the scientific world with the claim that they had beaten the physicists at their own game. Other scientists were cautious, but Dan Rather dived in headfirst. He led off the CBS Evening...
Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Isaac F. Silvera, who is also trying to reproduce the Utah results, said that he will continue his experiment because he is using a different method than the one Pons and Fleischmann used.
Since the MIT researchers did not disprove completely the fusion process, Silvera said that he will proceed with his experiment, but remains skeptical.
Other physicists at the convention supported Petrasso's report. Nathan Lewis, a chemist at the California Institute of Technology, said Monday that his duplications of the original experiment showed no evidence at all of nuclear reactions, even when the parameters of the experiment were changed.
Ronald R. Parker, the director of MIT's Plasma Fusion Center and a member of Petrasso's research team, said at a news conference Monday that no neutrons or gamma rays could have been detected in the Pons-Fleischmann experiment.